Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks peeps It really wasn't good ... thoughts of the new Waitrose are consoling me, but they haven't demolished the previous buildings yet, so I'm *hoping* it will be here for next year, but you never know!

Am upstairs just now scanning old stamps, part of the thing about selling designs for cards, mousemats etc - these particular ones are Hungarian, in celebration of the Russian breakthroughs in the 1960s! Fascinating to see them at hi-res

Incorporating the book edits is taking *much* longer than I thought - I really thought it was market-ready, what I'd written. Little did I know

Managed to get out into the garden though - working on the border thats just outside the kitchen door: cutting back next door's ivy, lots of it; digging up the Japanese anemones that are all over the place, and drowning out my lovely mint and sorrel; digging up some of the subsoil that got dumped onto the soil I'm trying to improve, when the fence was mended; clearing the way for this table to become a raised bed Everything looks absolutely **terrible** at the moment

coldcazzie

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm letting the complaint stand

Good! :mad:

And wow Goldie, that's a really terrible reason not to deliver a parcel!

Goldiegirl

coldcazzie wrote: »

And wow Goldie, that's a really terrible reason not to deliver a parcel!

What was even worse, I was in all day on the day they couldn't find the house, and they delivered other post! :mad:

Karmacat wrote: »

Am upstairs just now scanning old stamps, part of the thing about selling designs for cards, mousemats etc - these particular ones are Hungarian, in celebration of the Russian breakthroughs in the 1960s! Fascinating to see them at hi-res

D

Mr Goldie was a stamp collector in the late 50's to 60's. The albums are in the loft, and have survived the decluttering, along with his coin collection. I love looking at the old stamps from random countries, they always had good stamps in Belize or Paraguay!

Well done on gardening this late in the year. We've still got some flowers still blooming, but we've not been doing any active gardening for a few weeks.

Karmacat

Coldcazzie, welcome

**waves at Goldie too**

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Mr Goldie was a stamp collector in the late 50's to 60's. The albums are in the loft, and have survived the decluttering, along with his coin collection. I love looking at the old stamps from random countries, they always had good stamps in Belize or Paraguay!

Wow I do actually put by the odd interesting/beautiful stamp that turns up, but mostly I put them by to send on to charity - a few shops do still collect stamps to sell to wholesalers. The ones that I was scanning, I bought them in my county town the other day - 4 first day covers for £1!!! What I didn't say is that the Russian breakthroughs referred to are in spaceflight - as well as being a science fiction nut, I'm a spaceflight/astronomy nut

Well done on gardening this late in the year. We've still got some flowers still blooming, but we've not been doing any active gardening for a few weeks.

I so wish I could refer to what I'm doing as gardening I suppose it is, technically, but its not the lovely planting and growing, its the pruning and digging stuff up I'm very late in really taking on board the truth that not everything can be allowed to grow the way it wants to grow, in a suburban garden ....

Karmacat

Right, spam is reported, from whoever/whatever it is that's misusing the Union Jack ...

2.5 hours client work today, dishwasher's on, dried washing put away, I *hope* to put another load in soon, bin is out to be collected, with as much carp as I can fit in.

I was just rabbiting about throwing away the really expensive bathmat I have (I bought it in the 1990s, and it cost £17 even back then :eek: ) and realised I couldn't bear to throw it away it will still do me well for the next 94 weeks till I retire :rotfl: might have to soak it before washing it, this time :rotfl: Affection is sometimes misplaced, I know

I'll be doing as much editing as I can during the day, I've got to be hopping in and out of things. Hope everyone has a good one

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

What I didn't say is that the Russian breakthroughs referred to are in spaceflight - as well as being a science fiction nut, I'm a spaceflight/astronomy nut

Didn't know you were interested in spaceflight/astronomy K. The 'nut' bit I had already worked out though .

Karmacat wrote: »

I was just rabbiting about throwing away the really expensive bathmat I have (I bought it in the 1990s, and it cost £17 even back then :eek: )

I love that you still remember the price :rotfl:.

What are you doing with the pension savings? Are you putting them straight into your pension?

Karmacat

gallygirl wrote: »

Didn't know you were interested in spaceflight/astronomy K. The 'nut' bit I had already worked out though .

Oh yeah when I went to Florida, I *did* spend a day at a theme park, because its the law, but much more of my time was spent at Kennedy Space Centre, and I saw a shuttle launch :j and I got the inside gen on the astronauts because I was staying with a science fiction fan who worked with them :j

And in the words of a science geek song: "And when we're on Mars, we're halfway to the stars" :beer:

I love that you still remember the price :rotfl:.

Its a bit mad, isn't it .... it was a lot of money for a bathmat

What are you doing with the pension savings? Are you putting them straight into your pension?

I'll make one proper pension contribution during March, until then its going into a savings account. And thats another wrinkle I *must* pay attention to - the regular savings accounts that debit directly from your current account, HSBC calls it the Regular Saver, gross of 4%. Better than a smack in the face with a wet kipper, as they say

Karmacat

Opened the Regular Saver it really *is* quick :rotfl:

philhbug

I used to have Regular savers, always seemed a good way of forcing myself to save an amount in a way that I couldn't get at until it matured a year later. Unfortunately my bank stopped having them as available accounts and if you try and get one with a different bank it's either impossible or poor rates.

Karmacat

What a shame for you, philhbug! Its a really simple way of getting a high rate of interest for some of your cash

Finished paid work for the week ... now to have a 15 minute relaxez, and on to book editing. Decided not to do any gardening right now - I'd sink into the bog!